The Food Ranger on MSN

A city built on flavor: Cairo’s street food story

This video explores Cairo’s street food scene through a wide range of local dishes and vendors across the city It examines ...
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How Cairo transformed pasta into a street food phenomenon

Cairo’s street food scene reaches a new level with a pasta dish built for scale, speed, and flavor. Vendors prepare massive portions using rapid-fire techniques and bold seasoning that reflect the ...
Grub Street

Egyptian Street Food Gets the Star Treatment in Manhattan

Since it was founded in 2012, the Cairo-based chainlet Zooba has expanded to six locations (and counting) in the city. It was made in the fast-casual mode, clearly built for scale, but when co-founder ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Layered History of Koshary, Egypt’s Most Beloved Street Food

An Egyptian chef prepares koshary at Abou Tarek in downtown Cairo. Ahmed Hasan/AFP via Getty Images At Abou Tarek in downtown Cairo, koshary is served the way it has been for decades: heaping portions ...
Al-Monitor

Cairo food carts get street of their own

AL-MONITOR is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...